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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1902
Page
3
A late summer miscellany reports on sweet corn forage value, Canada wheat output, irrigation funds, soil care, and the shift of farm labor to new tasks. It covers crop rotations, legume benefits, lime and ashes as soil amendments, the rise of Western range lands, and a note on a successful small strawberry bed yielding months of canning fruit.
Education opportunities for women expand as schools teaching cutting and fitting for garments multiply across the country. The piece argues these skills empower a girl to dress well, boosting future prospects and independence beyond mere music or piano practice.
Discussion of congressional acts for interoceanic canal and a nationwide plan to dam rivers and irrigate desert lands. The aim is to convert subsidized arid regions into productive farms, selling reclaimed lands to fund further irrigation, with emphasis on semitropical belts where irrigation boosts yields.
White alfalfa, long valued in semiarid areas, is gaining attention as a highly protein rich forage. Farmers in northern and northwestern states, spurred by adequate rainfall, explore its successful culture as soil adaptation, not climate, proves key. The perennial plant promises great value to Northern farmers capable of growing it.
On corn land plagued by deep rooted weeds like mullein milkweed and wild roses the surface cultivator proves an indispensable tool with sharp knives slicing weeds below ground to annihilate them. It cannot replace the four shovel plow for general corn cultivation though.
Thirty five years ago settlers faced no nurseries or railroads. They cleared land, dug up 200 wild black raspberries, planted roots, and within two years produced abundant berries. The crop yielded eating, canning, selling, and gifting, proving wild stock could thrive.
Farmers should embrace trolley railways to boost land values and living standards. A recent 12 mile line last year doubled adjacent farmland value and attracted more farm residents. Citizens are urged to support right of way donations and a $500 to $1000 bonus to builders.
Modern Mexico outlines how Mexican women greet, dress, and interact in public. Women receive calls only with family present, rely on chaperones, and etiquette favors rapid neighbor introductions. Powdered complexions and persistent use of hats mark traditional fashion and social behavior, with limited early work roles for women.
A West Virginia maiden Part ridge married Rabin, followed by Sparrow and Quayle in succession. The family includes two young Rab bis, one Sparrow, three Quayles, with grandmothers Swann and Jay, the latter now a bird of paradise. Also Rev Albert Eaton Mitch preached in a shirt waist at a Cleveland Congregational church, making a curious impression. After calling a man a fool, we like him to prove it.
William Beebe argues that common beliefs about owls crows magpies doves and hawks are misleading. He notes owls live with other animals only in error and that many so called facts about birds’ intelligence vision and diet are exaggerated or false, urging careful observation.
Workmen excavating behind Mrs. Alice Peacock’s house in Westfield uncovered an almost perfectly preserved mastodon skeleton fragment. Bones include a large shoulder blade, hip bone, backbone sections, rib fragments, and a massive vertebral column. The site, about ten feet below ground, holds geological significance with plans to mount articulated remains.
Fuge Sidener of St. Louis recently ruled that a wife may take money from her husband's pockets under provoking circumstances and now extends that dogs may bite a person who ties a tin can to a dog. If the dog lacks legal right, equity may award it. Thus a Daniel comes to judgment.
A quotation likens Webster’s praise of Hamilton to the rise of the Republican party on March 4, 1897. It states that Hamilton drew from national resources and unleashed public revenue while reviving public credit as the party took power.
Nearly the whole town of Leavenworth faces rail shipment bottlenecks as manufacturers report insufficient cars and locomotives to haul in raw materials and move completed Antahed products to customers, highlighting a severe supply chain constraint.
Uncle Bill defends self-made men against critics while recounting Alvin Winslow and Milt Adams as examples. He notes wealth can mask merit, cites John D. Rockefeller critically, and argues self-made status depends on honest effort and personal responsibility, amid editor’s probing questions.
A broadMixed column reviews global hints on medicine, emigration, law, education and crime. It notes Massachusetts physicians count about 4600, fish species in America north of Panama, and 60,000 exiles under Russia's interior minister. It mentions a monument for J Sterling Morton, Melville Bigelow to lead Boston University Law, and a Berlin anti tipping movement among others.
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